HP Blavatsky's Teachings on Theosophical Practice: Blavatsky Lecture

According to HP Blavatsky, getting in touch with transcendental Theosophy cannot be achieved through our reason alone, but requires the higher faculty of spiritual intuition. The challenge for modern aspirants lies in the fact that this spiritual intuition is not readily available at our current stage of evolution, but can only be accessed in deep meditative states. By earnest and dedicated study alone one may become a scholar but not a true Theosophist, that is, one who has access to divine wisdom. To achieve this, one must undergo an inner transformation that makes it possible to reach “a state in which one ceases to be the conditioned and personal ‘I’, and becomes one with the ALL.” Because the mission of the TS is to help people ascend to this state of spiritual consciousness, HPB and her Adept teachers have emphasized the necessity of making Theosophical teachings practical. This book suggests that within HPB’s writings one can find an outline of a Theosophical system of yoga designed to provide the earnest aspirant with a path to move from the study of teachings towards a direct perception of spiritual truths. This yoga comprises various practices, but before reviewing them it is necessary to examine the context in which such practices stand.